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“Who Has Not Wak’d” : Mary Robinson and Cartesian Poetry
- Philosophy and Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 41, Number 2, October 2017
- pp. 392-399
- 10.1353/phl.2017.0047
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A close reading of Mary Robinson’s late-eighteenth-century poem “London’s Summer Morning,” which captures all the noises and smells of a busy London street, is not enough to convince the reader that it isn’t all a dream. But whose dream? René Descartes and Wallace Stevens suggest that it may not matter.